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THE GRISTLE, P.6 ROCK SHOTS, P.18 RUMOR HAS IT, P.20
HERBIE HANCOCK: A GENRE-DEFYING LEGEND, P.20VAUDEVILLINGHAM: ANYTHING GOES, P.17 }} BITE OF B’HAM: EDIBLE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE MASSES, P.34
REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C.
08. .10 :: #33, v.05 ::
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A glance at what’s happening this week
[08. .10]
MUSICKenny Rogers: 7:30pm, Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden
COMMUNITYNorthwest Washington Fair: Through Saturday, NW Washington Fairgrounds, LyndenSan Juan County Fair: Through Saturday, Friday Harbor Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green Solidarity Social: 5:30-8:30pm, Boundary Bay Brewery
GET OUTChowder Charter: 6-9pm, Bellingham Bay
[08. .10]ON STAGEOff the Map: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community TheatreBard on the Beach: Through September 30, Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C. Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Cabaret Comedy: 8pm, Swinomish Casino, Anacortes The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSICThe Dagwoods: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Dido & Aeneas: 7:30pm, Christ the Servant Lutheran Church Counting Crowns: 7:30pm, Northwest Washing-ton Fairgrounds, Lynden
COMMUNITYFamily Fun Night: 6pm, Bellwether on the Bay
WORDSChuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom
GET OUTFinal History Cruise: 6pm, Squalicum Harbor
[08. .10]ON STAGEArsenic and Old Lace: 7:30pm, Blaine Perform-ing Arts Center Trouble at the Tropicabana: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon Off the Map: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Superhero: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSICDido & Aeneas: 7:30pm, Christ the Servant Lutheran Church
Who dunnit? Find out during viewings of
Aug. 20-21 at Mount Vernon’s
RiverBelle Dinner Theatre
If you’re in downtown Bellingham Sun., Aug. 22, keep
a lookout for the dozens of area artists who’ll be practicing their
craft—and calling attention to the importance of a thriving arts
scene—as part of the
Rick Springfield: 7:30pm, Northwest Washing-ton Fairgrounds, Lynden
WORDSFamily Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library
[08. .10]ON STAGE Things That Fly: 2pm, Fairhaven Village Green The Tortoise Vs the Hare: 3pm and 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre Arsenic and Old Lace: 7:30pm, Blaine Perform-ing Arts Center Trouble at the Tropicabana: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon Off the Map: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Superhero: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEHot August Night: 8pm, Blue Moon Ballroom
MUSICDido & Aeneas: 3pm, Christ the Servant Lu-theran Church
COMMUNITYProps & Ponies: 9am-4pm, Heritage Flight Museum Lummi Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Nugent Drive Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Centen-nial Riverwalk Park Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square Honor Day: 12pm, Maritime Heritage Park Labyrinth Walk: 7pm, Whatcom Hospice House
FILMThe Blind Side: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green
FOODChefs at the Market: 11am and 1pm, Depot Market Square Bite of Bellingham: 12-4pm, 1300 block of Cornwall Ave.
GET OUTSummer Bike Swap: 10am-4pm, Bellingham Sportsplex
VISUAL ARTSArt at the Winery: 10am-5pm, Dakota Creek Winery, Blaine Native Carvings Presentation: 1:30pm, Belling-ham Public Library
[08. .10]ON STAGE Puppet Picnic: 1pm, Canyon Creek
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Arsenic and Old Lace: 2pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center Dracula Auditions: 7pm, Blaine PAC Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
MUSICCultural Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch State Park
COMMUNITYCorvette Show & Shine: 10am-2pm, Jerry Chambers Chevrolet, Bellingham Sunday at the Depot Car Show: 11am-4pm, Depot Market Square
VISUAL ARTSPlein Air Paint Out: 9am-5pm, downtown Bellingham
[08. .10]ON STAGEDracula Auditions: 7pm, Blaine PAC Rumors Auditions: 7pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden
WORDSAriana Khent: 7pm, Village Books Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project
COMMUNITYNW Washington Fair: Through Aug. 21, Lynden
[08. .10]ON STAGERumors Auditions: 7pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden
VISUAL ARTSTeen Art Night: 6-8pm, Center for Expressive Arts MaryAnn Kohl Presentation: 7pm, Village Books
SEND EVENTS TO [email protected]
See Mustangs of both the aerial variety and the road-ready kind at the first
show Aug. 21 at the Heritage Flight Museum
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VIEWS & NEWS 4: Mailbag
6: Gristle & Views
8: Siren call
12: Last week’s news
13: Police blotter
ARTS & LIFE 14: Brainstorming kegger
16: The peak of summer
17: Vaudeville + Bellingham
18: The art of rock
20: Musical math with Herbie
22: Clubs
24: Return of the nanny
26: Film shorts
REAR END 28: Employment, Troubletown
29: Wellness
30: Crossword
31: Advice Goddess, Sudoku
32: Free Will Astrology
33: This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug
34: Bite it
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THE GRISTLE, P.6 ROCK SHOTS, P.18 RUMOR HAS IT, P.20
HERBIE HANCOCK: A GENRE-DEFYING LEGEND, P.20VAUDEVILLINGHAM: ANYTHING GOES, P.17 }} BITE OF B’HAM: EDIBLE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE MASSES, P.34
REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C.
08. .10 :: #33, v.05 ::
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NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre
CONTENTS › › LETTERS › › STAFF
SUPPORT FAIR TRADEWe need a leader in Congress who endorses
legislation that ensures equal market oppor-tunities for American workers, not one that rubber-stamps any trade agreement that comes across his desk. Not addressing regulatory and tax barriers have led to one-way trade deals that have only exacerbated the problems in the U.S. economy and have led to the elimination of more U.S. manufacturing jobs.
Not only do these shady backdoor agreements favor Wall Street over workers, they neglect our environment as well. We need Congress to sign on to progressive trade reform such as H.R. 3012, the Trade Reform, Accountability, Devel-opment and Employment (TRADE) Act.
This landmark legislation shifts the debate toward what we are for with respect to a new model for trade and globalization rules that can deliver the benefits of expanded trade while avoiding the damage caused by the status quo NAFTA-WTO model.
With the TRADE Act, we can send a message to President Obama that only a strong reform agenda can deliver on his campaign promises to fix our broken trade model.
The TRADE Act articulates what must be done to repair current trade pacts, such as NAFTA, and creates a path forward for a new U.S. trade policy that can achieve societal goals such as good jobs, safe food and promotion of basic human rights, healthy communities, environ-mental protection, and begin to focus on real reasons for mass immigration. I strongly sup-
port this legislation, as does an array of labor, environmental, consumer, faith and family farm organizations.
We need to create a new American trade policy and fix past agreements like NAFTA. So why hasn’t our representative signed on to this important legislation?
—Charles Law, Bellingham
DEER ARE NEAR, FEARS APPEARThey are at it again, the Board of Directors of
the Sudden Valley Community Association are in the process of banning residents from feeding domesticated deer. How will they enforce the ban? By neighbor “informing” on neighbor—just like the “good Germans” who reported their dissident neighbors to the Gestapo.
Human populations have chased wildlife out of cities. So the deer moved out further to the deep forests. Now, humans have decided to take over the forests and plant lush lawns and exotic plants. Homeowners here moved into a forest and were amazed there were deer here who liked to nibble on their precious plants. Yet, some folks who actually moved to Sudden Valley to commune with wildlife and, yes, some who feed them, are now demonized as criminals by the general manager and the board. Habitat destruction and reckless drivers are killing off the deer, not the deer lovers.
When the deer become too many, most likely the SVCA will starting shooting them—to ap-pease once again those elderly garden zealots.
—Jon Noggle, Sudden Valley (edited for length)
If you were near Seattle around 2pm Tues., Aug. 17 and heard a pair of sonic booms coming at you, blame President Obama, who was in town stumping for Senator Patty Murray. The sound was caused by two F-15 fighter jets who were scrambling to intercept a small plane that had entered restricted airspace over Boeing Field where Air Force One was parked.
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VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsOPIN IONS › › THE GRISTLE
KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD: Whatcom County Coun-cil deserves praise (really!) for their decision to provide themselves more time to develop a transfer of develop-ment rights program for the Lake Whatcom watershed. Honestly, we’d expected a divided council to run out the clock, then fumble their decision to extend the subdivi-sion moratorium in the reservoir in the final hours of this, their last meeting before the moratorium expires, settling the matter by no-fault nonfeasance; instead, a healthy majority approved the six-month extension. Bravo.
Council President Sam Crawford—who cast the lone vote against the extension—is probably correct that a minefield of land-use restrictions stand in the way of landowners fully subdividing the handful of large lots that still remain affected by the moratorium; but his shrug that the extension therefore didn’t matter one way or the other probably factored in its support by the coun-cil majority: If it don’t matter, Crawdaddy, why not extend it? The unuttered parallel to his argument, that there likely is no way to tailor a TDR program that would be of use to these landowners, making the extension a waste of time, is probably also true.
Consider it a rear guard action against the door of a cow barn mostly emptied of cows.
With Lake Whatcom, nearly every recent victory (with notable exceptions) has been mostly symbolic, with the really hard and expensive stuff kicked down the road to an uncertain horizon.
“We’ve spent 18 years and large amounts of money without a road map, a comprehensive restoration plan,” Bellingham City Council member Stan Snapp complained last week. “The Environmental Protection Agency, more than two years ago, issued a cookbook that describes how to develop a plan for lake restoration. Last year, using the EPA guide, the Technical Review Task Force de-veloped and issued a comprehensive report based on the recommendations of the many, many studies that have been done, each of which would contribute to the plan that we still don’t have.”
Snapp expressed frustration with the so-called five-year work plan for Lake Whatcom, which the city and county jointly approved last week. The county approved it; the city approved it (how could they not?) and sched-uled one more work session to discuss its deficiencies and omissions.
Snapp is correct that the document seems a self-con-gratulatory group hug by city and county water resource personnel who’ve turned Lake Whatcom into a pensioned career. It is not, he argues, a restoration plan at all, or even an honest assemblage of what needs to be done on behalf of the reservoir; the “work plan” is merely a recital of what’s been done—the reports generated that gather dust on some shelf somewhere—and, by extension, what will continue to be done... a modeling of how much more dust we can expect might collect on those reports in future years.
“A restoration plan,” Snapp explained, “would pro-vide a comprehensive approach that covers all aspects of the work that needs to be done in the watershed. A restoration plan would not be limited to current eco-nomic climate, budget or political ideals, but would spell out, based in science, what needs to happen so that long-term funding will be more of a known factor, even though precise estimates for projects years out would not be possible.
“The position from staff that ‘we’re doing the best we can with what we have’ is disingenuous,” he
BY AMY GOODMAN
News at 11:HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS YOU
OUR DAILY weather reports, cheerfully presented with flashy graphics and state-of-the-art ani-mation, appear to relay more and more information.
And yet, no matter how glitzy the presentation, a key fact is in-variably omitted. Imagine if, af-ter flashing the words “extreme weather” to grab our attention, the reports flashed “global warm-ing.” Then we would know not only to wear lighter clothes or carry an umbrella, but also that we have to do something about climate change.
I put the question to Jeff Mas-ters, co-founder and director of me-teorology at Weather Underground, an Internet weather information service. Masters writes a popular blog on weather, and doesn’t shy away from linking extreme weather to climate change:
“Heat, heat, heat is the name of the game on planet Earth this year,” he told me, as the world is beset with extreme weather events that have caused the death of thousands and the dis-placement of millions.
Wildfires in Russia have blanket-ed the country with smoke, exac-erbating the hottest summer there in 1,000 years. Torrential rains in Asia have caused massive flooding and deadly landslides in Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and China. An ice shelf in Greenland has bro-ken off, sending an ice island four times the size of Manhattan into the ocean. Droughts threaten Niger and the Sahel.
Masters relates stark statistics:2010 has seen the most na-tional extreme heat records for a single year: 17.The past decade was the hot-test decade in the historical record.The first half of 2010 was the warmest such six-month period in the planet’s history.The five warmest months in his-tory for the tropical Atlantic have all occurred this year (like-ly leading to more frequent and severe Atlantic hurricanes).
“We will start seeing more and more years like this year when you get these amazing events that caused tremendous death and de-struction,” Masters said. “As this extreme weather continues to in-crease in the coming decades and the population increases, the abil-ity of the international community to respond and provide aid to vic-tims will be stretched to the limit.”
And yet the U.N. talks aimed at climate change seem poised for collapse.
When the Copenhagen climate talks last December were derailed, with select industrialized nations, led by the United States, offer-ing a “take it or leave it” accord, many developing nations decided to leave it. The so-called Copenha-
gen Accord is seen as a tepid, non-binding document that was forced on the poorer countries as a ploy to allow countries like the United States, Canada, and China to escape the legally binding greenhouse-gas emissions targets of the Kyoto Pro-tocol, which is up for renewal.
Bolivia, for example, is pursuing a more aggressive global agreement on emissions. It’s calling for strict, legally binding limits on emissions, rather than the voluntary goals set forth in the Copenhagen Accord. When Bolivia refused to sign on to the accord, the United States denied it millions in promised aid money. Bolivia’s United Nations ambassador, Pablo Solon, told me: “We said: ‘You can keep your mon-ey. We’re not fighting for a couple of coins. We are fighting for life.’”
While Bolivia did succeed in passing a U.N. resolution last month affirming the right to water and sanitation as a human right, a first for the world body, that doesn’t change the fact that as Bo-livia’s glaciers melt as a result of climate change, its water supply is threatened.
Pacific Island nations like Tuvalu may disappear from the planet en-tirely if sea levels continue to rise, which is another consequence of global warming.
Amy Goodman is the host of “De-mocracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 800 stations in North America. Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column.
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THE GRISTLEstormed. ”We look to staff to bring electeds the full range of information and ideas necessary to help us make informed decisions. Staff leads the discussion by what they put on and/or leave off the table.”
That succinctly describes the de-ficiencies of the work plan for the next five years, which feeds the mice—community outreach and edu-cation; pesticides control; land clear-ing rules; cheers for the removal of putt-putts and detergents from the reservoir; plant some trees; continue to collect data and identify what is known—while ignoring the roaring and charging elephants—a terrify-ingly expensive stormwater retrofit; brobdingnagian water treatment ex-pansions; a complete retrenchment of roadbuilding practices in the reservoir; and the mind-boggling, oxymoronic challenge of transforming a built en-vironment that is already, according to state ecologists, 80 percent overbuilt. Not one project in the city’s six-year planning horizon for transportation improvements (TIP) is directed to per-vious road improvements in the Lake Whatcom watershed, the first step to acquiring financial assistance from the state. Six years! Not one! Even to de-scribe these elephants on paper would be an admission of the failure of pub-lic policy on a titanic scale—a body of water that might have been fenced off and left to its own pristine grooming for thousands of years now requires dozens of interlocking bureaucracies, hundreds of studies and millions of taxpayer dollars to manage. Manage-ment becomes a euphemism for “pray it doesn’t get any worse.”
“Encourage car-pooling and bicy-cling!” the plan chirps in its section on roads.
Enforcement gets two pages, and suggests more talking and reporting about problems. Hey, let’s sing songs!
“This five-year staff work plan, which we’re already eight months into is, at best, a five-year ‘to-do’ list,” Snapp scoffed, which, he said, simply kicks the can down the road for five more years. At which time, presumably, everyone involved deserves reelection or a pay increase.
Crawford—who never once in his career in government ever cast a vote solely in favor of lake protection—looks positively principled by compar-ison. His observations about the folly or futility of doing anything to pro-tect Lake Whatcom are, in an inverted way, the only honest public admission that exists about the bleak future of our reservoir.
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NEWS › › COMMENTARY › › BRIEFS
currents
STATE OF
Call 911.
A 36-year-old unified emergency
medical service, an athlete among
competitors, is on the verge of col-
lapse, suffering from arrhythmia
and multiple hemorrhages failing
adequate life-support efforts.
Whatcom County Council di-
agnosed the EMS condition as
terminal last week and began to
draw up a death certificate for the
unified, countywide program. Af-
ter discussion and word surgery,
council downgraded the patient
to “serious”—a persistent vege-
tative condition—after learning a
number of off-the-shelf remedies
had not yet even been tried.
After more than four years of various traumas and injuries, the newest fifth Whatcom Medic One unit has been operating on a part-time basis in areas sur-rounding Ferndale for much of the summer.
With interlocal agreements between Bellingham and Whatcom County increasingly in tatters, County Council contemplated delivering notice to the City of Bellingham that they would approve a resolution, announcing plans to terminate the interlocal agree-ment for countywide Medic One service at the earli-est opportunity.
Hearing that avenues continue to exist for medi-
ating and resolving conflicts, council softened the language of their resolution to note their disappoint-ment in negotiations and put both administrations on notice that they were considering sterner terms.
While support for unified emergency medical ser-vice is expressed at the highest levels of Whatcom leadership, a minority of quacks has long sought to pull the plug on Medic One and Whatcom’s unified EMS.
Their crisis of opportunity arrived July 9, following a quarrelsome meeting of the Emergency Medical and Ambulance Advisory Board, a group ostensibly formed
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to help settle disputes. The meeting didn’t achieve that desired goal and ended with fists pounding on the table and cries of bad-faith bargaining.
A swift volley of correspondence next flew between Bellingham and Whatcom County CEOs, heightening their already strained relationship. County Executive Pete Kremen accused Mayor Dan Pike of employing the city’s website to distort the county’s position on unified EMS. Mayor Pike fired off a heated reply:
“I couldn’t disagree more with your characterization of the city web site content, the EMS program’s history or this administration’s intent,” Pike responded. “It sad-dens me and should infuriate taxpayers that actions of our county administration and policymakers are—similar to five years ago—threatening the unified, life-saving and award-winning EMS system and leading us down the road toward what could too easily become a duplicative, more expense system.
“I know,” Pike continued, “you have stated this is not your personal intent, but the pattern of behaviors by your staff and a majority of the County Council speak much louder.”
“I must plead ‘guilty,’” Kremen replied drily, “to the county exercising due diligence and good management practices with regard to oversight of the significant funds it provides the Medic One program. We think it is prudent and appropriate to continue to ask ques-tions and seek justification for the expenditure of public funds, especially when Whatcom County will contribute almost $3 million to the city-operated Medic One system in 2010 compared to the city’s projected contribution of just over $1.5 million.”
Yet Kremen’s assessment of relative contribution itself distorts a system that handled roughly 14,000 calls last year, about half of which were logged inside Bellingham city limits.
“County taxes are paid by city residents, too,” ex-plained the Medic One medical director, Dr. Marvin Wayne, MD. “I live in the city and pay a use fee. I also pay county sales tax.”
At its heart, is it a policy dispute between city and county governments that is embittered by a labor dis-pute? Or is it a labor dispute that is being exploited by administrations, each trying to wrest control of a costly and complex program? Welded together by passions and egos, it’s probably both.
“The county going way back has claimed—with some merit—that they are stepchildren in the running of and funding of Medic One,” Bellingham City Council member Stan Snapp explained. Snapp was a career firefighter and division chief with Bellingham Fire Department. Snapp was there from day one, when Dr. Wayne began to craft craft Medic One in 1974.
The county’s lasting irritation with Medic One is that it has been—from its inception—an organ of Belling-ham Fire Department and the City of Bellingham. The city has tried to build a Cadillac medical-response sys-tem on the county’s Kia budget.
“For basically 36 years—we just celebrated 36 in Ju-ly—we have had an integrated city and county system,” Wayne explained. “The operational entity has been the Bellingham Fire Dept.
“Systems like emergency medical response units oper-ate in a very complex way,” Wayne continued, “but are actually operated by a very simple system: Rather than have 50 chiefs each running their own system, we have one operational entity chief—that’s Bellingham Fire.
“Really,” he explained, “it’s Whatcom Medic One that just happens to be operated by Bellingham Fire Depart-ment, in the same way you have St. Joseph’s Hospital operated by an organization called PeaceHealth.”
AWARD-WINNING SYSTEM... In April, Wayne—an attending physician in St. Jo-
seph Hospital’s emergency department and an associate clinical professor at the University of Washington—was named a “Hero of Emergency Medicine” by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Ironically as the future of the program becomes increasngly uncer-
tain, later this year Wayne and his program will be again honored, again by emergency physicians for his three decades of work building a unified EMS.
“Out of 30,000 members, I was selected,” Wayne said. “I don’t believe in ‘me’ awards,” he added. “I don’t con-sider these awards about me. I consider them confirma-tion of the quality of the system. They are recognition by the greater medical community of what this system has accomplished.”
“We continue to be positioned to be the best providers of EMS service and—all the districts, I believe—would like to see that continue into the future,” Bellingham Fire Chief Bill Boyd said. “We don’t want to see the sys-tem fragmented. Duplicative service is not in the best interests of the citizens. It’s the beginning of the ero-sion of patient-care, ultimately, which is something we all want to avoid.”
...TERRIBLE FUNDINGThe history of unified EMS in Whatcom County is as
troubled as it is distinguished.“The county has been vocal for a number of years that
it is the only county in all of Washington that contrib-utes to EMS out of the general fund,” Bellingham fire-fighter Rob Wilson noted.
Other counties with unified EMS have passed property tax levies to fund their services. Not that Bellingham and Whatcom County haven’t tried that over the years.
“Private ambulance service collapsed in Bellingham in 1974,” Wayne said, sketching the early history of the ser-vice. “Bellingham Fire was available to fill the gap.
“We had trained 10 employees from the fire depart-
ment as emergency medical technicians. We got hold of a borrowed ambulance from Lynden, and a borrowed am-bulance from the Army base in Blaine, and started an EMS medic system.
“Over a short period of time,” he related, “we got both hospitals involved. The three county commissioners at that time put together an interlocal agreement with the City of Bellingham to create a countywide EMS service, one of the earliest cooperations between the city and county, a long tradition of an integrated system.
“For many years,” Wayne said, “the system was primar-ily an advanced life support response. If you skinned your toe, you got a paramedic ambulance and a BLS—basic life support—responder wherever it was, wherever was closest. It evolved over time on a cost and efficiency basis. Over time we added ALS—advanced life support—capacity.”
With increased complexity and training come in-
creased cost. By the late ’90s, Bellingham—with its ca-pacity to collect taxes, fees and revenues the county by law cannot—began to pull away from the rural county in terms of the levels of service the city could demand and afford.
“There was a bit of a crisis five years or so ago,” Wayne noted, “when there was little bit of, uh, pissing between the county and city about the way EMS is funded. Almost every county in the state of Washington funds their EMS through a dedicated property tax levy. Not through a sales tax.”
Bellingham had capacity, but the city’s willingness to share services to outlying areas of the county—without being paid for that service—was becoming strained. In late 2003, the city issued notice that they would termi-nate countywide Medic One service as early as March of the following year.
Seeing the end could be near, county fire districts be-gan planning to add basic life support transports with their own equipment, freeing up some of Bellingham’s more advanced mobile medical units.
Beefing up county fire districts also meant beefing up the collective bargaining and benefits of now-pro-fessional firefighters and paramedics. Around this same time, the IAFF Local 106, sensing brethren firefight-ers needed support, helped Ferndale District 7 launch their own union chapter, the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 3855. Only District 7 is outside the 106th.
“Bellingham said, ‘Look, we’re not going to constrain our system at the price the county is willing to pay;
“I THINK THE PLAN IS TO FORCE THE CITY OF BELLINGHAM OUT OF THE MIX, AND THEN THE COUNTY WILL NOT HAVE ANYONE TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE.”
—ROB WILSON, PRESIDENT OF BELLINGHAM IAFF LOCAL 106
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we’re pulling out,’” Gary Russell recalled. Russell is the charismatic chief of Fire District 7.
“Well,” he said, “that was a big hit because there was no backup in the county. All of the paramedics in the county were going back to Bellingham, there was no ALS coverage in the county. So the county said, we need to put together a program so we have ALS coverage.”
The county brought together fire chiefs, commis-sioners and the interested public to devise and put together an ALS program, Russell related. “That was the Whatcom County EMS Working Group. Bellingham was going to do just inside Bellingham; they did a study, they felt they could pass the EMS levy, they put the EMS levy up to a vote.”
Confident the city could go its own way, then-Mayor Mark Asmundson offered a city-only property tax levy for Bellingham-only the following year. But stunning nearly everyone—and perhaps because voters intrinsi-cally understood the benefits of combined service and were unwilling to fund anything less—the city-only levy also failed.
“It failed,” Russell observed, “miserably.”“A big direct mail came out by a group who called
themselves Citizens On Public Safety—a.k.a., ‘COPS’—which was backed by the same people who opposed the Whatcom Transportation Authority levy last spring,” Bellingham firefighter Willy Spaulding related. Spauld-ing is a 9½-year veteran paramedic with the Bellingham Fire Department and the Local 106.
“They did a good job of getting people to vote down the proposed property tax levy, which put the unified system in jeopardy. We were going to run out of money as a unified system if this levy did not pass,” Spauld-ing said.
“Suddenly, Bellingham had no money to fund their program,” Russell agreed. “So they came back to the table and said, ‘we need to be together.’ And we said, ‘yeah, we do need to be together.’”
That’s how the city became involved in the EMS pro-gram again so, together, the districts could come up with a stable funding mechanism, Russell said. But meanwhile, he said, politics had changed in the smaller fire districts.
“We knew, if we were to succeed in doing this, we had to offer a unified system to the county, and that it had to have support by all county leaders,” Whatcom County deputy administrator Dewey Desler related. “We drafted a resolution and got all the city leaders and county leadership, the fire districts, the unions, every-one involved, to all sign in support of it.
“We felt support had to be unanimous.”To get that unanimous support for the polls, certain
details of how the service would be manage and oper-ated had to be left ambiguous until after the election, Desler related.
There was a general agreement, a general sense of the future of EMS that had been scoped by the working group. Alas, though, five years later few can agree on the exsact details of that unspoken agreement.
“We devised a plan where the county, and fire de-
partments like ours, would take on more BLS—basic life support—and transport responsibilities to save the system money so we wouldn’t have to hire more medic units in the field to do that. We did that. We worked hard between all of the fire districts. And the idea was,” Russell said, “that additional support units would come not from Bellingham but from the county fire districts.”
According to the plan, he recalled, Bellingham would retain the four existing medic units and a chase car. But the new extra capacity, new medic units that were required to keep up with the demand, would come from county fire districts and fire agencies, Russell ex-plained.
“That way there would be diversity in the system, and assets owned by entities other than the City of Bellingham.”
“After the election, we fully intended to sit down and craft those agreements,” Desler said.
This time, in November 2005, the measure passed with tremendous support. Nearly 67 percent of voters sup-ported the .01 percent sales tax levy.
But the agreements that were to be firmed up? That never happened.
LABOR PAINS“Our understanding was that the union would stay uni-
fied, and we would be working side-by-side with county fire districts. We would bring Ferndale firefighters into the system,” said Wilson, president of Bellingham’s IAFF Local 106.
“We communicated to the County Executive that we had some concerns that we didn’t know how the system was going to work.
“The county administration said that’s fine,” Wilson said, “but there is a danger of confusing the voters, of losing votes, with these details.
“We had the election, the vote passed. Then we looked forward to the time that we’d sit down and discuss the issues of how it was all going to work. That never hap-pened. Those meetings never occurred,” Wilson said.
“There was general agreement that Ferndale would staff the next unit online,” Spaulding agreed, “but I think we all believed they would come in under Medic One operated by the Bellingham Fire Department under Chief Boyd.
But “it was pretty clear very early on that what was going to happen was Ferndale was going to go ahead and develop their own separate paramedic system, sepa-rate from Whatcom One,” Wilson said. “That wasn’t the original deal.”
Russell disagrees.“That was all agreed to,” he said. “Everyone signed on
the dotted line. Because that would have been a deal
breaker—if Bellingham had said, ‘No, we’re not going to agree to that,” we’d have probably gone our separate ways right there. But we all agreed a .01 percent sales tax presented under the provision that all new medic units would be coming from the county from future on. The 106th approved of that plan. It went to all of the government entities signed off on it and signed a reso-lution in support of it.”
After it became clear to most observers that Ferndale was going to go their own separate way, very soon after the election, things started breaking apart.
“We have 20 jobs through Bellingham Fire out in the county,” Wilson said. We’ve served that area for over 35 years, and we wanted to continue to own that work. Many of us live in the county, and we want a quality medic service out there.
“We complained to the IAFF and we started an ac-tion for a work jurisdiction dispute,” Wilson said, a fairly common action to resolve a labor dispute. “We believed we had a right to the work. We were willing to bring Ferndale and other fire districts into it, but we wanted
it unified under union control.“We went through many discussions with Ferndale.
We went through a mediation, where—unfortunately—after half an hour, they pushed back from the table. We went through, ultimately, an arbitration. That de-termined that the work belonged to the 106, and that Ferndale needed to work with us and work it out. But rather than do that, Ferndale decided it was going to bail and quit the union.
“Nothing like that has ever happened before,” Wilson said. “Ever.”
SCABS AND GAPING WOUNDS“What happened here is our people got pushed out of
the International,” Russell countered. ”They were told, ‘Either you join Bellingham or you stop this work.’ Our people were caught between a rock and a hard place. County government entities are saying, ‘No, we made this commitment to the fire districts. Either you do it or we’ll find somebody else to do it.”
Russell stressed he has only minimal involvement with the union and labor disputes.
“My understanding is the union said, ‘We won’t train your people. We won’t give you fair evaluations. We’re going to boycott you,’ basically.”
“As I understand it,” Chief Boyd replied, “this is the only instance in the more than 100 year history of the IAFF that anything like this has happened, where a juris-diction dispute went all the way through arbitration and ended up with a Local withdrawing from the IAFF. That’s huge. So for the Local 106 to roll over on this,
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“TO SAY THE DISPUTE IS GINNED UP, I’M NOT SURE THAT’S STRONG ENOUGH. MORE LIKE ROTGUT.”
—DR. MARV WAYNE, MD, MEDIC ONE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
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08. .10TUESDAY
Whatcom County Council agrees to extend a ban on subdivi-sions in the Lake Whatcom watershed an additional six months while members develop a plan that could transfer some develop-ment rights out of the watershed. County Executive Pete Kre-men says council made the right decision to extend the ban.
County Council also approves the five-year plan for the man-agement of Lake Whatcom. Bellingham City Council approved the plan the previous evening, but schedules a special work ses-sion to discuss how it might be improved. Lake Whatcom Water and Sewer District must also approve the proposal.
The federal marine Fisheries Services approves a new ap-proach to managing the harvest of certain West Coast fish, which it says will lessen cutthroat competition among fishermen and reduce over-fishing. NOAA officials say the new catch-share system allows fishermen to better plan their season by setting an overall catch limit for a fishery and dividing the total catch into shares controlled by individual fishermen.
08. .10WEDNESDAY
A federal judge says he’ll hear more arguments before decid-ing whether to permanently bar the release of signed peti-tions calling for a vote in Washington on expanded domestic partnerships for gay couples. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court
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issued a ruling that permitted the release of sig-natures, but that allowed lower courts to consider narrow exemptions on specific grounds. The judge extended a restraining order that keeps the sig-natures secret while he considers the merits of an exemption.
President Obama signs a bill approved by Con-gress earlier this month that would direct $10 bil-lion to save an estimated 160,000 teaching jobs nationwide. The Seattle Times reports the bill may save up to 3,000 teaching jobs in Washington, or more than 5 percent of the state’s classroom workforce.
08. .10THURSDAY
Gov. Chris Gregoire will cut $51 million from state welfare programs, and says across-the-board cuts to other state programs are likely in October. Gregoire tells state agencies to prepare for cuts of 4 to 7 percent, with firmer estimates following the state’s updated revenue forecast in September.
The success of the Alaska Marine Highway System has caused ferry officials to consider adding a new boat to double service out of Bellingham. With the ferry Columbia departing at capacity each week, officials say they’d like to add the mainline relief ferry Kennicott (pictured) to Bellingham departures.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire says “honored but no, thanks” to any chance she might be named to replace Elena Kagan as solicitor general. Saying the timing was not in the best interests of the state, Gregoire asked to be removed from the list of potential appointees to the position after Kagan advanced to the U.S. Supreme Court last month. Three women now serve as justices on the high court.
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PROJECTED state revenue losses, in millions, over five years, if competing liquor privatization initiatives pass, according to state financial analysts.
PROJECTED state revenue gains, in millions, over five years if I-1100
privatization passes, according to initiative backers
PROJECTED state revenue gains, in millions, over five years if I-1105
privatization passes, according to initiative backers.
ONE-TIME gain, in millions, for the state, in franchise sales, according to all three sources.
MAJORITY of the Legislature required to reconcile the impacts of the two initiatives should both pass, if a third initiative, Tim Eyman’s I-1053, also pass.
ESTIMATED annual loss in state revenues, in millions, should reconciliation efforts be deadlocked through the passage of all three initiatives.
SOURCES: Washington State Office of Financial Management; Modernize Washington, Support I-1100; Washington Citizens for Liquor Reform, I-1105; Washington Secretary of
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DUKES OF HAZZARDOn Aug. 11, Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies rolled out the welcome mat for a high-speed chase. Failing attempts to halt a 22-year-old Burlington man traveling northbound on Interstate-5 at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, officers rolled spike strips across the freeway. The driver dodged one set of strips north of Ferndale, but had two tires blown out by strips he encoun-tered in Blaine. The optimist continued on, followed by a remarkable number of police vehicles in pursuit of him, before crashing into several additional po-lice vehicles at the point of entry into Canada. No injuries were reported. The driver reportedly had a small baggie of marijuana in his car. Since he’d actually crashed through into Canada, he was held by RCMP officials until deportation papers could be filed.
On Aug. 2, Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies rolled out the welcome mat for a high-speed chase. A Blaine Police officer stopped a driver for speeding in a car with expired vehicle tabs. The driver fled when the officer approached on foot. Entering the freeway, the driver encountered county law enforcement and attempted to elude them as well. Blaine Police deployed a spike strip, suc-cessfully deflating the man’s tires. The 34-year-old Bellevue man was arrested for eluding and sundry other offenses.
On Aug. 1, a driver performed a very pretty 180-degree spin in front of a crowded bar on East Holly Street at 1:40am. Multiple Bellingham Police of-ficers instructed the 22-year-old to pull over, but he ignored them and carried on. He was arrested a short time later and cited for DUI, reckless driving and obstructing law enforcement officers.
ALIEN SKIESOn July 22, the Sedro-Woolley saucer nest was active again. Two very bright fireballs—”like a welding torch, hurt eyes to see them”—were seen in the mountains south of Bellingham.
On July 27, a motorist reported, “I was coming home on the Alger Cain Lake Road in Sedro-Woolley. Two lights came down to my truck on the way home. Truck stalled, would not start, weird bright light, appeared to be disc shaped with lights all around it hovered in
front of truck.” The motorist reported a huge second disc was hovering above the smaller craft. “Then my truck began lifting up and I do not know what hap-pened,” the motorist reported. “Woke up in the truck. Had to take shower and go to work.”
SCHLEMIEL SCHLIMAZELEDOn Aug. 9, a Bellingham woman kindly allowed her old friend Will to spend the night in her residence with his girl-friend. In the morning, the woman dis-covered her old friend Will had repaid her kindness. He and his girlfriend were gone, along with a portion of the Bell-ingham woman’s belongings.
‘MAZEL TOV’ COCKTAIL On Aug. 5, a Sunnyland resident re-ported an unwanted intoxicated woman was in his home, making threats. Bell-ingham Police arrived and attempted to escort the woman from the home. She became violent and threw a shot glass of vodka at the officers. She made nu-merous threats of violence directed at the officers. They transported her to detox, where she was refused due to her hostile state. She was taken to the emergency room for sedation.
RED TIDE, RED-HANDEDOn Aug. 5, an alert beachcomber spot-ted a man digging for clams at Semiah-moo Spit. The beach had been closed by the health dept, for bacterial bio-hazards. Blaine Police confiscated the man’s haul and counted “exactly 111 clams over what would have been his legal limit, had he bothered to get a license to gather shellfish. The clams were rescued and returned to the beach from whence they came,” police report-ed. The Seattle resident was caught and similarly released with criminal cita-tions and mandatory court dates.
BLAINE’S CRAZY BECOMES BELLINGHAM’SOn Aug. 6, Blaine Police spoke to a transient who was wandering through a convenience mart “saying crazy things and scaring other customers,” employ-ees reported. Officers observed the gent nearby “and found the description was accurate. The traveler accepted an ad-monishment and promised to not return to the service station,” police reported.
On Aug. 6, Blaine Police received a sec-ond complaint from a business about a man disturbing their customers. ”The transient troublemaker was contacted and given a courtesy ride to the Light-house Mission in Bellingham,” police reported.
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THURS., AUG. 19RADIO HOUR: Author and artist Michael Ni-coll Yahgulanaas will be the featured guest at this month’s live taping of the Chuckanut Radio Hour at 7pm at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall Ave.
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FRI., AUG. 20FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Members of the Bellingham Storytellers Guild will share tales during Family Story Night at 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Entry is free.
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SUN., AUG. 22POETRY WITH PAUL: Chinese scholar and self-described “Fishtown River Rat” Paul Hansen will read from his recent poems and Sung Dynasty poetry translations from 2-4pm at La Conner’s Skagit County Histori-cal Museum. Suggested donation is $5.
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MON., AUG. 23POETRYNIGHT: Through August, read your original verse at poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus Project, Cornwall Avenue. Sign-ups start at 8pm.
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PATHWAY TO UNION: Ariana Khent shares ideas from her book, A Pathway to Union: The Marriage of the Feminine (Heart) and Mas-culine (Mind) in the Twenty-First Century, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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WED., AUG. 25GENERATION: Bowen Island poet Bernice Lever reads from her ninth book of poetry, Generation, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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NEXT WEEKWED., AUG. 18FAIRHAVEN MARKET: The Wednesday Farmers Market is open from 12-5pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. The midweek mar-ket continues through September.
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AUG. 18-21NW WASHINGTON FAIR: Head to Lynden for the 100th annual Northwest Washington Fair. In addition to the rides, live animals and plethora of fair food, there’ll be lots of live entertainment. General admission is $8-$10; tickets are $30 for the headliners.
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SAN JUAN COUNTY FAIR: “Locally Grown” will be the theme of the San Juan County Fair, which kicks off Wed., Aug. 18 and continues through Sat., Aug. 21 at the San Juan County Fairgrounds in Friday Harbor. Animal events, ag displays, fine arts and much more will be part of the thrill. Daily passes are $5-$10.
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THURS., AUG. 19BROWN BAG: Photojournalist Barb Roy leads a Brown Bag presentation focusing on South Australia at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall building, 121 Pros-pect St. Suggested donation is $3.
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TEA PARTIERS are getting all the press. But the anger on the Left is almost as intense—but rather than tea, the Left prefers beer.
Whether it’s the no-strings bailout of Wall Street, the absence of public ben-efit in health reform, financial reform that doesn’t safeguard the public from predatory banking and lending, a stimulus that was too small to do much good, the rising tide of racism, willful apathy as the planet burns, or—above all—the unholy marriage of federal power with corporate abuse, the “professional left” is getting fed up. The difference is the Left these days rarely foam and claw the air; no, the Left gets depressed, tunes out and turns off.
Earlier this spring, progressives began a conversation to motivate and edu-cate the community in becoming more democratically engaged. As “Hope” and “Change” began to drift into the white noise, they held workshops, attended seminars and tried to reach a collective understanding of financial collapse and political paralysis. Their sense was to connect the dots across a broad range of issues. Now they want to talk about what they’ve learned, and the next steps, in the company of a much broader range of views.
Around the same period last spring, national columnist and civil liberties at-torney Glenn Greenwald noted: “Whether you call it ‘a government takeover of the private sector’ or a ‘private sector takeover of government,’ it’s the same thing: a merger of government power and corporate interests which benefits both of
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“Growing anger over that,” Greenwald re-lates, “is rooted far more in an insider/outsider dichotomy over who controls Washington than it is in the standard conservative/liberal ideo-logical splits from the 1990s. It’s true that the people who are angry enough to attend tea par-ties are being exploited and misled by GOP op-eratives and right-wing polemicists, but many of their grievances about how Washington is
ignoring their interests are valid, and the Democratic Party has no answers for them because it’s dependent upon and supportive of that corporatist model.”
“For the last 20 years at least, corporate America and Wall Street interests have trumped the interests of ordinary people and our communities,” says WWU Professor Damani Johnson, a co-founder of the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force. “We need to reverse the no-tion that corporations enjoy political rights as natural
persons and can use pay-to-play politics in Congress to dominate our democracy.”
“We, the people, need to take back our power,” agrees WHRTF co-chair Korry Har-vey. “We need to revitalize our democracy so that we have clean elections, affordable health care, full employment, environmental sustainability, immigration reform, an end to unnecessary wars and financial reform.”
The event, named a “Solidarity Social,” provides an opportunity for citizens and or-ganizers to get together and find ways to stand up against corporate power. The gath-ering will feature informal conversations, group brainstorming and, like all great revo-lutions, casks of ale.
ATTENDWHAT: Solidarity SocialWHEN: 5:30-8:30pm, Wed., Aug. 18WHERE: Boundary Bay BreweryINFO: 360-398-2295
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Solidarity SocialPROGRESSIVES LAUNCH A ‘BRAINSTORMING KEGGER’
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FAMILY FUN NIGHT: As part of a free “Family Fun Night,” bring the kids along to a night of fun starting at 6pm at Bellwether on the Bay. Puppet acting, face painting and an 8:15pm outdoor showing of The Goonies will fill the night. Food will be available for purchase.
i WWW.PORTOFBELLINGHAM.COM
SAT., AUG. 21PROPS AND PONIES: Bellingham’s first Mustang-Mustang show, “Props & Ponies,” happens from 9am-4pm at the Heritage Flight Museum, 4165 Mitchell Way. The event features Ford Mustangs with their inspira-tion, the P-51 Mustang. Suggested donation is $5.
i WWW.HERITAGEFLIGHT.ORG
FERNDALE MARKET: Attend the Ferndale Farmers Market from 10am-1pm at Centen-nial Riverwalk Park. The market continues every Saturday through Oct. 9.
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BELLINGHAM MARKET: Purchase and peruse local fruit and veggies and artistic offerings at the Bellingham Farmers Market from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Chest-nut Street.
i 647-2060 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.
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LUMMI MARKET: The Lummi Island Farm-ers Market occurs from 10am-1pm every Saturday through the summer next to the Islander grocery store.
BLAINE MARKET: Local vendors will sell their wares at the Blaine Gardeners Mar-ket from 10am-2pm at H Street Plaza. The weekly event continues Saturdays through Oct. 9.
i WWW.BLAINECHAMBER.COM
THRESHING BEE: The Belleville Threshers and the Cascade Two Cylinder Club present their annual Threshing Bee starting at 10am at Burlington’s Lagerwood Farms, 19095 Cook Rd.
i WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM
HONOR DAY: All are invited to celebrate Native American culture and community unity at the 10th annual Honor Day starting at noon at Bellingham’s Maritime Heritage Park. The free event will feature storytell-ing, songs and a walk around the Great Cedar Circle.
i 224-4770 OR WWW.HONORDAY.ORG
WALK FOR HOSPICE: Attend a “Walk the Labyrinth” fundraiser from 7-9pm at the site of the new Whatcom Hospice House, 2806 Douglas Ave. Suggested donation is $10.
i 927-8803 OR WWW.
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SUN., AUG. 22CORVETTE SHOW: An “All Corvette Show & Shine” takes place from 10am-2pm at Bell-ingham’s Jerry Chambers Chevrolet, 3891 Northwest Ave. If you’re bringing a vehicle to show, there’ll be a $15 fee.
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SUNDAY AT THE DEPOT: Browse a unique collection of fine European vehicles—or dis-play your own—at the “Sunday at the Depot Car Show” from 11am-4pm at Bellingham’s Depot Market Square. General entry is free. If you’re displaying your car, pony up $10 for the Boys and Girls Club.
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WHEN OLD hiking pals from the gentle South showed up wanting to “get high and outside,” there was some serious reconnoitering to be done.
Although the recent hot weather was melting it fast, there were still copious amounts of snow in the high places. Wanting greenery and flowers, we turned our eyes toward the High Divide, that alpine fantasyland stretching between Excelsior and Welcome passes.
Five miles of succulent green ridge top perfect for idyllic wandering. And linger-ing snow patches would come in handy to melt for drinking water. Later in the sea-son, when the snow is gone, the ridge is bone dry, so the timing seemed perfect.
The High Divide has long been an autumn favorite—in fall, the broad meadows are lurid with the colors of the season. I was looking forward to visiting in summer and enjoying a different color scheme.
We rumbled up the Canyon Creek road in a cloud of dust and arrived at the nearly empty trailhead; a good sign. Another good sign: blue skies, warm sun and a forecast for more of the same. Up through the shadows of graceful trees, Old Man’s beard hanging from the branches like prayer flags.
We dipped down to the tiny Damfino Lakes in their green basin. Generally I’m not a huge fan of swampy lakes in the woods, but these little bodies of water have always captured my imagination—and today was no different. Someday I’ll come here and spend a night, but not today.
We climbed up through the diminishing forest from the lakes and, in no time at all, found ourselves traversing steeply pitched meadows covered in mountain hellebore. As we ascended, the views grew wider, culminating at the pass, where Baker and Shuksan greeted us, filling the southern sky.
THURS., AUG. 19HISTORY CRUISE: Brian Griffin will helm the final Bellingham Bay His-tory Cruise of the summer starting at 6pm at Squalicum Harbor’s Island Mariner Dock. Once onboard the Is-land Caper, Griffin will fill attendees in on the historical significance of the nearby environs. Entry is $30-$35.
i WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
FRI., AUG. 20LADIES NIGHT OUT: Wild Whatcom Walks will host its monthly “Ladies Night Out: Shadows and Perception” outing from 7-9pm in Whatcom Coun-ty. If you’re interested in attending the naturalist-led adventure, sign up to find out the location. Admission is by donation.
i WWW.WILDWHATCOMWALKS.
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AUG. 20-22DIABLO DOWNTIME: It’s not too late to sign up for “Diablo Down-time,” which begins Friday and ends Sunday at the North Cascades In-stitute’s Learning Center on Diablo Lake. Additional “downtimes” hap-pen Sept. 24-26 and Oct. 8-10.
i WWW.NCASCADES.ORG
SAT., AUG. 21BIKE SWAP: The second “Summer Bike Swap” of the season happens from 10am-4pm at the Bellingham Sportsplex, 1225 Civic Field Way. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Bike Shop, a cycling project for kids from low-income homes. GARDEN WORKSHOPS: “Using Tun-nels and Hoop Houses for Produc-tive Gardening” will be the topic of a hands-on workshop starting at 10:30am at Everson’s Cloud Moun-tain Farm, 6906 Goodwin Rd. At 1:30pm, show up for a “Preserving the Harvest” clinic. Both events are free, and registration is not required.
i WWW.CLOUDMOUNTAINFARM.COM
HYPERTUFA CLASS: Bring gloves along for today’s “Hypertufa” class at the Garden Spot, 900 Alabama St. Cost is $35 and includes all sup-plies.
i WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM
SUN., AUG. 22WINTER GARDENS: As part of the Whatcom County Master Gardeners’ season of offering classes to the general public, attend a “Choices for a Winter Garden” workshop at 2pm at Ferndale’s Hovander Home-stead Park. The gig is free, and no registration is required.
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MOON WALK: “Moon of Bats” will be the focus at Wild Whatcom Walks' “Walk When the Moon is Full” outing from 7-9pm at Fern-dale’s Hovander Homestead Park. Admission is by donation, and pre-registration is a must.
i WWW.WILDWHATCOMWALKS.
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STORY AND PHOTO BY JOHN D’ONOFRIO
A Midsummer DreamTHREE NIGHTS ON EXCELSIOR PEAK
One last push and we found ourselves on the perfect little dance floor-sized summit plateau of Excelsior Peak with its 360-de-gree vista of clambering peaks. We pitched the tent, melted snow and watched the or-ange glow of sunlight give way to the oth-erworldly glow of a full moon rising over Icy Peak. It was a still and warm evening in the catbird’s seat with nobody but us on the Divide. Ooh la-la.
In morning sunshine we loaded our daypacks and headed east along the sin-uous divide through gardens of heather and lupine. A falcon soared overhead, intent on breakfast.
At Welcome Pass, I climbed a snow gully to a notch with a million-dollar view of Tomihoi and Larrabee peaks.
A small melt-water pool cradled in the snow was an ethereal blue, the color of God’s eyes. Returning along the undu-lating ridge, the meandering Nooksack could be seen far below, flashing among the dark trees and blue-green shadows of the valley.
Back atop Excelsior at day’s end, we once again enjoyed the lavish sunset/moonrise floor show, savored the gentle night breez-es and relished the music of silence.
Welcoming another cloudless morning, we explored the ridge on an informal path toward the distant tower of Church Mountain. As we headed out the ridge, Church Mountain got bigger and the path smaller, each high point a revelation.
By late afternoon, clouds had gath-ered and we returned to our mountain-top aerie in time to enjoy a rapturous sunset. The moon rose right on schedule through complicated clouds, and in the distance lightning flashed. I sat up late into the night, washing myself in the solemn moonlight and counting my in-numerable blessings.
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
VaudevillinghamJOIN THE CIRCUS, DON’T LEAVE HOME
IF YOU’VE never seen someone juggle two dozen balls at the same time, watched a duo sword dance that ended only after the sharp objects were swallowed or experienced Karaoke for the Deaf—wherein American Sign Language and interpretive movement were combined—then it’s pretty obvious you weren’t at the July edition of Vaudevillingham.
According to Bellingham Circus Guild (BCG) member Della Moustachella, that particular lineup was par for the course where the monthly variety show is concerned. The set list for August was equally inspired, with every-thing from contact juggling to music, aerial dance, unitards and “mystery and magic” expected to make an appearance on the roster.
Part of the fun, Della says, is not knowing exactly how exactly the night’s gigs will both begin and end. Although the entertaining soiree is hosted at the BCG’s Cirque Lab on Iron Street, those who take to the stage to bring their talents to the spotlight don’t necessarily have to be part of the troupe of clowns, stilt-walkers, acrobats and aerialists that make up the Guild’s core members. And they don’t have to audition in advance.
“It is intended to promote new art, give people a venue to try out new material, inspire creativity, encourage new performers and enhance growth as artists,” Della says. “Vaudevillingham is open to whoever is
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stageinterested in performing. We have people from in and out of town, the Upfront and iDiOM Theater, veteran and novice performers—you name it.”
With just a couple guidelines—nobody can repeat the same act at any Vaudevillingham, ever, and each participant must stick to five minutes or less of stage time—the shows are otherwise uncensored.
“There’s no limit, no pre-screening of acts, no run-through,” Della adds. “We say 'uncen-sored’ not to mean careless or unthoughtful, but so performers won’t feel limited and audi-ence members know it’s not a 'for kids’ circus show. That said, many people bring their kids, especially to the 8pm show. We try now to put the racier acts in the 10pm show.”
Another point Della wants to make clear to audience members who venture to the lab is that BCG’s mis-sion to entertain and enlighten goes far beyond Vaudevilling-ham. Monies generat-ed at the mid-month fundraiser go to help keep the space open so they can continue teaching, practicing, hosting community events and, eventu-ally, gain nonprofit status.
With plenty of advance notice—the next Vaudevillingham isn’t until Sept. 15—now’s the time to hone your skills for public consumption. Sharpen those swords, memorize the moves that will mesmerize, or do something nobody but you has ever thought of before.
Della, who’s been part of Vaudevillingham since its inception three years ago, says part of what thrills her each month is not knowing ex-actly what’s going to happen.
“I love the range in acts—from raw to aston-ishing, hilarious to beautiful, mellow to mov-ing,” she says. “I love the community aspect of Vaudevillingham—that anyone can do anything at any level is encouraged and inspiring. I love that it’s different every month. I love having an opportunity to create and share something new. I love to see what’s inside of people. I love seeing people grow as performers. I love our supportive audience!”
ATTEND WHAT: VaudevillinghamWHEN: 8pm and 10pm Wed., Sept. 15WHERE: The Cirque Lab, 2107 Iron St.COST: Suggested dona-tion is $5-$10INFO: www.vaudevil-lingham.com
THURS., AUG. 19GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $5 for the early show, $3 for the late one.
i 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
AUG. 19-21OFF THE MAP: Joan Ackerman’s dramat-ic comedy, Off the Map, shows at 7:30pm Thurs., and 8pm Fri.-Sat. at the Ana-cortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets are $16.
i WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM
AUG. 19-SEPT. 30BARD ON THE BEACH: Head to Van-couver, B.C.’s Vanier Park for the 21st season of Bard on the Beach. Much Ado About Nothing opens the season, and will be followed by Antony and Cleopatra, Fal-staff, and Henry V. Tickets are $19-$38 (Canadian).
i WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG
AUG. 20-22ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: The Blaine Community Theater presents Joseph Kes-selring’s classic comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the Blaine Performing Arts Center, 975 H St. Tickets are $8-$10.
i WWW.BLAINECOMMUNITYTHEATER.COM
AUG. 20-21SUPERHEROES: Expect superheroes, villains and no script when a new format dubbed Heroes of Sky City opens this weekend with 9pm showings at the Up-front Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10.
i 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
TROPICABANA TROUBLE: A murder mystery, Trouble at the Tropicabana, shows at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s River-Belle Dinner Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery St. Tickets are $20-$40.
i WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM
SAT., AUG. 21THINGS THAT FLY: WWU’s Department of Theatre Arts presents Things That Fly at 2pm at the Fairhaven Village Green.
i 650-3876
TORTOISE VERSUS THE HARE: See lo-cal kids who took part in the Missoula Children’s Theatre weeklong summer theater camps alongside pro actors at performances of The Tortoise Versus the Hare at 3pm and 7pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Entry is $6-$10.
i WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
AUG. 22-23DRACULA AUDITIONS: Audition for upcoming October performances of an adapted version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula from 7-9pm at the Blaine Performing Arts Center, 976 H St.
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MON., AUG. 23SUMMER IMPROV CAMP: Kids ages 9 and up can sign up for a Summer Improv Camp happening today through Thursday at 302 W. Illinois St. The workshops will be led by Sheila Goldsmith.
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Although he wants it to be known that he snaps a whole lot more than band-related happenings, when Belisle comes to Belling-ham Fri., Aug. 27 for a one-day art show at Manns Music, it’ll most definitely be with his rock photography hat on. Attendees will have a chance to check out—and purchase prints of, if they find something to their lik-ing—both the images to be found in Hello, as well as those highlighting bands such as Fleet Foxes, Tiny Vipers, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Belisle will also be on hand at the event, so those who want to know how he got Stipe to agree to have the shot of him whizzing in an anonymous urinal included in the final cut can go ahead and pipe up.
WHAT’S THE quickest way to go about becoming a rock ‘n‘ roll photographer? According to David Belisle, you probably shouldn’t count on it happening overnight.
He should know. The trajectory that saw the Seattle native secure a longtime behind-the-scenes seat on R.E.M.’s tour bus—which culmi-nated in 2008’s Hello, a book of photographs focusing its lens on front man Michael Stipe—wasn’t a short one.
Truth be told, Belisle says, he didn’t start taking pictures with the intention of using them to help make a living. In fact, his first camera was purchased at a garage sale. Not long after, he built a darkroom and began to independently study traditional techniques. In the late 1980s, when he and friend Bob Whitaker managed the punk band Mudhoney, Belisle was the one who provided the images for the grunge collective’s publicity shots, as well as those of their Tomorrow Hit Today album.
“That’s when it mostly started,” Belisle says. “The Seattle music scene was blowing up and bands started contacting me to shoot them.”
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Well, HelloBEHIND THE SCENES WITH DAVID BELISLE
“For the book, I wanted to pick photos that capture that moment and make a story, even if you have no idea what was going on,” Belisle explains. “I also wanted to show them as dark-room prints—they are flatbed scans of my color and black-and-white darkroom prints. I really value the traditional techniques in dark-room photography.”
In other words, if you see something you like in Hello—whether it’s a shot of Stipes standing shirtless and sweaty on two speak-ers while an innumerable throng of fans raise their fists in solidarity or one of him holding his black-and-white dog and looking like an indie everyman in front of a house in Athens, Geor-gia—you can end the night by taking a print of it home with you.
Belisle admits that he didn’t listen to the Hall of Famers when they first came out because he “avoided a bunch of pop music back
then,” but says a former boyfriend turned him on to R.E.M.’s music. Strangely enough, the two had a conversation about the photos in the CD—and also noted how much it was talked about in the press that he was a queer artist. They then posited what it would be like to be involved in the world of music superstardom.
Down the road, obviously, Belisle found out—and, in a sense, joined the band.
“I love R.E.M. even more now than ever,” Belisle says. “They are the most honest and awesome guys ever.”
SEE ITWHAT: A Rock Photography Art ShowWHEN: 5pm Fri., Aug. 27WHERE: Mann's Music and Art Center, 414 W. Bakerview Rd.COST: Entry is freeINFO: 733-8090 or www.mannsmusic.net
“FOR THE BOOK, I WANTED TO PICK PHOTOS THAT CAPTURE THAT MOMENT AND MAKE A STORY, EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON”
— DAVID BELISLE
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doitUPCOMING EVENTSSAT., AUG. 21ART AT THE WINERY: More than 60 local artists will have their wares available for perusal and purchase at today’s “Art at the Winery” event from 10am-5pm at Blaine’s Dakota Creek Winery, 3575 Haynie Rd. In addition to the artwork avail-able, there’ll be wine tasting and tours, live mu-sic and lots of edibles. Entry is free.
i WWW.DAKOTACREEKWINERY.COM
WONDERS OF WHATCOM: As part of the “Won-ders of Whatcom” series, show up for a “Native Carvings” slide presentation at 1:30pm at the lecture room at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. The program is free and open to the public.
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SUN., AUG. 22PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT: Support local artists—or sign up to set up—as part of the 5th annual Plein Air Paint Out, which features area artists heading outside to ply their craft from 9am-5pm throughout Bellingham’s Holly Street corridor. The resulting images of the place many of us live will be available at an early November art show at the Blue Horse Gallery. The goal is to have 100 artists representing Bellingham’s thriving arts community, so look into taking part.
i 319-6115 OR WWW.STUDIOUFO.NET
TUES., AUG. 24ART WITH ANYTHING: As part of the “Locals in the Know” series, award-winning artist, author and educator MaryAnn Kohl will share projects culled from her Art With Anything book at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The free event will feature hands-on projects and a short slideshow.
i 671-2626 OR WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
ONGOING EXHIBITS ALLIED ARTS: View the “Femme Fatale” exhib-it through Aug. 28 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The show features works by Linda Hughes, Carmen Moise, Kay Little, and Katy Frank.
i WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG
ANCHOR ART SPACE: Contributions by Todd Horton, Ana Reid, and Michael Johnson can be viewed through Sept. 25 at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
i WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG
ARTWOOD: The carvings of Doug Hudson will be highlighted through August at Artwood Gal-lery, 1000 Harris Ave.
i 647-1628
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The mu-seum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St.
i 393-7540
BLUE HORSE: “Tranquility,” a solo show by “Public Hanging” winner Michael Deeb, can be perused until Aug. 27 at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St.
i WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM
CEDAR WORKS: View and purchase a variety of Native American art from 10am-6pm Wed.-Sat. at the Cedar Works Art Gallery, 217 Holly St.
i 647-6933
DEMING LIBRARY: “Home and Away: A Pho-tographic Exhibition,” featuring works by Max Lucy, will be on display until Sept. 12 at the Deming Public Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. DEPOT ARTS CENTER: Watercolors by Keith Artz, Dot Stanton, and Clifford Burkey will be up for perusal through Aug. 28 at the Depot Arts
Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes.
i (360) 293-3663 OR WWW.DEPOTARTSCENTER.ORG
DIGS: “One Foot Gap,” a mixed-media collabo-ration by Solomon Olmstead and Erin Clancy, shows through August at Digs, 200 W. Holly St.
i WWW.DIGSSHOWROOM.COM
FOG: View a variety of works by noted artists at the new Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Har-ris Ave. i WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM
CYGNUS OPENING: View mixed media works and sculptures at the “Between” exhibit until Aug. 29 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St.
i (360) 420-9568
GOOD EARTH: Patricia Morse’s clay art will be featured through August at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
i WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM
INSIGHTS: The multi-artist “Animation” ex-hibit shows through Aug. 13 at Insights Gallery, 604 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
i WWW.INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM
LITTLE GALLERY: Works by Northwest Water-color Society member Ron Pattern and painter and muralist Lanny Little can be viewed at the “Essentially Northwest” exhibit through August at the Little Gallery, 1220 Bay St.
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MCCOOL GALLERY: New paintings by Anne Mar-tin McCool can be viewed as part of the “10th Anniversary Show” through August at the Mc-Cool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
i WWW.MCCOOLART.COM
MINDPORT: “Water, Water: Boat Floating on Canyon Creek” can be viewed through Septem-ber at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St.
i WWW.MINDPORT.ORG
MONA: “Artists, Poets, Scholars: Fishtown and the Skagit River” and “Max Benjamin, Helmi Ju-vonen, and Louis Mideke From the Permanent Collection” will be up through Oct. 4 at La Con-ner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
i WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
QUILT MUSEUM: “All That Blooms” and “Japa-nese Textiles” can be perused through Sept. 26 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 2nd St.
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PASTEL SHOW: The 4th annual Northwest Pas-tel Society Member Show hangs through Aug. 31 at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
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SEBASTIAN IN BELLINGHAM: If you haven’t yet taken in the “Sebastian in Bellingham” outdoor sculpture tour in downtown Bellingham, you should know you only have until Aug. 31 to do so.
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SKAGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Way We Played: Early Skagit Recreation” can be seen through July, 2011, at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 4th St.
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SMITH & VALLEE: More than 50 regional artists are showing their works as part of the “Birds” exhibit from 11am-5pm every Wed.-Sun. through Aug. 29 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gal-lery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Expanded Horizons: Panoramic Photographs by J.W. Sandison,” and “Outside the Home: Photographs of Women in the Workplace” can currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum.
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musicSHOW PREVIEWS › › RUMOR HAS IT
YOU KNOW HOW, when you go to the movies, you get to see the trailer reel of all the coming attrac-tions? Well, consider what is to follow your personal synopsis of coming attractions with regard to this town’s music scene. Please note: this list is not com-prehensive and, as such, is subject to change.
Allow me to start with the show that’s got me the most twitchy and excited. It takes place Nov. 13 at the Wild Buffalo and comes to you courtesy of What’s Up! Magazine’s Brent Cole, who pulled the whole thing together to celebrate his 40th birthday. So, as a tribute to his extreme aged-ness, he’s enlisted Federation X (my most favorite Bellingham band in the history of all my favorite Bellingham bands), Sugar Sugar Sugar, Dog Shred-der, and the Holy Tailfeathers to play a show for all of us. I’m told another band might be joining this illustrious roster (Mono Men, I believe we’re all looking in your direction right now), but has not yet been confirmed. Suffice it to say, I’ve never been more excited for one of my friends to turn 40 in the entirety of my life. As for the rest of you: What-ever big, bucket-list event you’ve got planned for your milestone birthday, well, let’s just say, Brent wins this one. At least, that is, until I turn 40 and I figure out a way to reprise that legendary 1992 Mudhoney/Nirvana show at Carver Gym. This, how-ever, is not a plan without its flaws. Good thing I’ve got a few years to get them worked out.
In a similar vein comes word of another show featuring a band Bellingham loves. I’m speaking of Monotonix, who will hit town for an Oct. 12 show, also at the Buff. Having been privy to some of the behind-the-scenes machinations that went into getting these hairy Israeli rockers back inside the Bellingham city limits, I can tell you this show has been a long time in the making. Rumor suggests the Zorbatron band might also be joining this bill. Actually, that previous sentence is a total lie. The only rumor that actually suggests such a thing is the one I just started. Right here. In print. But it sure sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it?
A little closer in comes two shows that are sched-uled for this upcoming weekend. First up, is Petu-nia and the Vipers, who will pay yet another visit to the Green Frog on Fri., Aug. 20. Yeah, yeah, I know I hype this band pretty much every time they come to town. But not without reason. Sort of rockabilly by way of David Lynch (if you can imagine such a thing), they put on a great show whenever they roll through town. Come Saturday, if you’re not at Plan B watching Boat, you should be at Jinx to welcome Rooftops back from their tour. If you’ve been pay-ing attention, you’re well aware of the fact that the band’s drummer, Wendelin Wohlgemuth, aban-doned us not long ago for big-city life in Chicago, making opportunities to see these math rockers in-creasingly rare. Also rare is the chance to see Kristin Allen-Zito, who will open the show for them. Get all of it while the gettin’ is so very good.
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Herbie HancockTHE COMMON DENOMINATOR
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EVERYONE LIKES Herbie Hancock.While the previous statement probably doesn’t
quite meet the criteria to qualify as a Universal Truth, there’s enough accuracy in it to make it dif-ficult to disprove. Don’t believe me? Poll people you know. Then ask some of the ones you don’t. Try and pose your inquiry to people from all back-grounds and walks of life. Their answers might sound something like, “I’m not into jazz, but I like Herbie Hancock,” or, “I’m a pretty by-the-numbers traditionalist when it comes to jazz, but Herbie Hancock is someone I can really get behind,” or
even for music fans of a certain age, “I don’t know anything about jazz—in fact I pretty much hate instrumental music or funk or hip-hop or anything but straightforward rock ’n’ roll—but even I have to admit that ‘Rockit’ song pretty much kills it.”
If music, by its very nature, is an entity with more than its fair share of common denominators, Han-cock is one that fits into a great number of equa-tions. And the formula for his widespread appeal is deceptively simple: limitless innovation + unceas-ing accessibility = almost five decades of musical
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success. Running the numbers, that success looks a little something like 12 Grammy Awards, an Oscar, five MTV Music Awards, and 50-plus albums un-der his belt (and, if you’re taking this musical math one step further, you’ll al-ready have figured this to be roughly an album a year—an output that can only
be described as im-possibly prolific). He even won an Album of the Year Grammy in 2008, snaking the award out from un-der Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, and the Foo Fighters—only the second time the honor has gone to a jazz musician, the first time being some 45 years ago.
When I say Han-cock’s winning for-mula of innovation and accessibility is
deceptively simple, it’s no lie. Typically, in music, as with many things, one comes at the cost of the other, and to balance the two so perfectly for so many years requires not so much the straddling of a fine line as it does nimbly dancing on a razor’s edge—making Hancock a mas-ter choreographer indeed.
However, it would seem Hancock was born for this kind of greatness. Raised in Chicago and dubbed a piano prodigy at the tender age of seven years old, Hancock was playing Mozart concertos by the time he hit 11. All that clas-sical training was well and good, but was really only a warm-up for the big break that would come when Hancock
was just 23: an invitation from Miles Davis to join his quintet.
It would be easy for any young musi-cian to see such an opportunity as a sign they’d “made it,” but for Hancock, tenure in the Miles Davis quintet was a springboard for even greater things. And his next move would be one not even he could’ve seen coming—but when Bill Cosby calls with a project, anyone with any kind of sense knows to come running. And that’s how Hancock found himself recording the soundtrack for Fat Albert, which intro-duced his music to a whole new audi-ence, and spurred the versatile musi-cian’s lifelong fascination with musical gadgetry, most notably electronic key-boards. It was also at this point that Hancock’s fascination with funk music would begin to take hold, and the in-novative sensibility that has now made him a genre-defying legend began to manifest itself more strongly.
However, for all his inventiveness and his many collaborations—at this point, he’d joined forces with Davis, a couple of Marsalis brothers, Tony Williams, and Ron Carter, to name a few—Hancock had yet to make much of a dent on mainstream music. Until, that is, the 1983 release of “Rockit,” an impossibly catchy electronica megahit that con-sumed Top 40 radio and, with a little help from a music video featuring a bunch of robots, went on to make Han-cock the household name he is today.
If Hancock’s success were measured solely by the impact of that one song, his musical legacy would still be as-sured. After all, it was maybe the first mainstream hit to feature scratching and other turntablist techniques, and inspired the likes of DJ QBert and Mix Master Mike. It also, however subtly, helped open the door for the popular
acceptance of hip-hop, a circumstance of which Hancock is especially proud.
Since the success of “Rockit,” Han-cock has continued to reinvent himself while also reinterpreting the music of others. Some of his most critically lauded successes have come from his takes on the music of everyone from Nirvana to Prince to George and Ira Gershwin. He also continues to indulge his penchant for collaboration, invit-ing such artists as Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, and even Christina Aguilera and John Mayer to see the world through his musi-cal lens. His latest effort, called The Imagine Project, saw him team up with musicians from all over the world (and some from our own pop-culture back-yard, like Pink, John Legend, and Dave Mathews), and is complemented by a documentary about the multi-location, multicultural recording process.
What this prolific and inventive musi-cian has up his sleeve next is anyone’s guess, but for now, you can see him per-form songs from his extensive and var-ied catalog when he plays Aug. 28 at the Mount Baker Theatre. And, if his history is any indication, the show will be every-thing except for what you expect.
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HEAR WHO: Herbie HancockWHEN: 8pm Sat., Aug. 28WHERE: Mount Baker TheatreCOST: $35-$75MORE INFO: www.mountbaker theatre.com
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AUG. 18-20FAIR MUSIC: Jamie O’Neal will open for Kenny Rog-ers at 7:30pm Wed. at Lynden’s Northwest Washing-ton Fair. At 7:30pm Thurs., Casting Crowns will take over the headlining spot. Finally, at 7:30pm Fri., Rick Springfield will bring his big love to the stage. Tick-ets are $30-$40, plus Fair admission.
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THURS., AUG. 19PERMACULTURE AND MUSIC: To celebrate the an-ticipated completion of Fairhaven College’s Out Back Amphitheater, attend an “”Earth Folk Festival” con-cert starting with a potluck at 4pm at the outdoor
space. Music by Becky White and the Secret Mission, Diane Patterson, and Lovage will be available, and there’ll also be talks by permaculture educators. Suggested donation is $5-$20.
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MUSIC IN THE PARK: The Dagwoods will bring their blues, rock and pop to town for a concert hap-pening from 6-8pm at Bellingham’s Elizabeth Park. The free summer concert series continues through next Thursday.
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AUG. 19-21DIDO & AENEAS: Ensemble Enterprises Inc. per-
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SUN., AUG. 22CULTURAL CONCERT SERIES: As part of a free “Cul-tural Concert Series” happening through August, The Hurong Viet Performing Arts Group—a troupe of mu-sicians and dancers from Everett and King county who perform traditional Vietnamese offerings—will do their thing at 2pm at Blaine’s Peace Arch State Park.
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RAISED IN CHICAGO AND DUBBED A PIANO PRODIGY AT THE TENDER AGE OF SEVEN YEARS OLD, HANCOCK WAS PLAYING MOZART CONCERTOS BY THE TIME HE HIT 11.
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Beach Store CaféJames Higgins and the
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Aaron Guest (taproom), Yogoman's Wild Rumpus
Happy Hour Music feat. Robert S. Blake, Laura
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Henry Wesson (early), Jazz Jam feat. Organ
Donor Tour
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Cabin Tavern Live MusicStabbin' Hobo, Battle For
Athens, Nik FuryThe Atom Age, The Tru-tones, They Hibernate
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Blake Angelos Jazz Trio Marion Weston Trio
Commodore Ballroom Sunsplash 2010
Archer Ale House | Boundary Bay Brewing Co. Brown Lantern Ale House Chuckanut BreweryChuckanut Ridge Wine Company Commodore Ballroom Common Ground Coffeehouse
Edison Inn | Glow | Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar Graham’s RestaurantGreen Frog Café Acoustic Tavern Honey Moon
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Common Ground Coffeehouse
Rishloo, Pirate Pirate Motorhome
Conway Muse Open Mic Tango Café Ed Solem and the Barnacles Reggie Miles Drum Circle (early)
Edison Inn Bob Caloca and Friends Steve Frame
Fairhaven Pub Karaoke Hypnotist Ron Stubbs MonkeywrenchOpen Mic w/Chuck D feat.
JP Falcon GradyCollege Night
Graham's Restaurant Cracker Bent Grass Acorn Project
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Chanterelle Misty FlowersOpen Mic feat. Jim, Jonathan, and Sara
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Watertown Pub Karaoke w/Rick DJ Ontic
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Coast DJsDaft Punk vs. Chromeo
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sell off the farm he co-owns, to finance his gambling debts.
As if Isabel’s own children aren’t enough, two snooty child-relations from London, a nephew and niece, are evacuated to the farm and aren’t impressed with the mud-diness of the terrain and its inmates.
“Greetings, oh covered-in-poo people,” drawls the visiting boy, grandly.
Their country cousins’ yummy mummy remains in denial as the five children try to cause each other grievous bodily harm. “They’re getting to know each other,” she says, desperately, “through play.”
HARDLY ANY films are made that can be enjoyed whether you’re three or 93. Sequels superior to the original are another rarity.
Almost as uncommon are great family pictures that aren’t made by Pixar. So it’s a pleasure to report that Nanny McPhee 2 is a member of all three of these small, select communities.
Emma Thompson has wisely not attempted to write a carbon copy of the first hit movie, but transplanted the world’s ugliest supernanny to a different part of Eng-land in a later era, World War II. There’s an almost totally new set of characters, who offer Nanny McPhee a fresh set of challenges.
Isabel Green (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal with an immaculate English accent and a delightfully spirited performance) is a farmer’s wife, with no farmer. He (Ewan McGregor) is away at war, leaving her to muck out the pigs, help in the local shop (run by a twinkly but extremely eccentric Maggie Smith), look after three lively chil-dren and ward off attempts by her seedy brother-in law, Uncle Phil (Rhys Ifans), to
Fortunately, Nanny McPhee (played with splendid disdain for Hollywood glamour by Thompson herself) arrives, complete with magic walking stick and belching jackdaw familiar.
Over the rest of the film, she teaches the children five valuable life lessons: to stop fighting, share nicely, help each other, be brave and have faith.
These dramatized parables could eas-ily have been tiresomely moralistic, but, in fact, they’re wildly entertaining—for grownups as much as children.
The battling brats find themselves hav-ing to share a bed with a goat, a cow and a baby elephant. Uncle Phil’s nefarious schemes are undermined in various inge-nious ways. Piglets wink, fly and perform synchronized swimming routines.
Mistimed slapstick can be embarrassing, as we have seen recently in comedy flops such as Leap Year and Old Dogs. Here, it’s always fun and an inventive combination of real acrobatics and imaginative CGI.
All five children give bright, charming performances. Asa Butterfield (who also starred in The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas) looks to me as though he could develop into a fine grown-up actor. Eros Vlahos is hilarious as the pompous city boy, look-ing like a young Julian Fellowes and criti-cizing his relatives with the social skills of Michael Winner.
Gyllenhaal anchors the film in real-ity with an endearingly vulnerable study of a mother not so much at the end of her tether as dangling helplessly from it. In a tiny but effective cameo as the children’s absentee father, McGregor per-forms with a verve and sincerity notice-ably absent from his acting over the past decade. This, coupled with the upcoming The Ghost, suggests that under the magi-cal influence of Nanny McPhee he may be taking his profession seriously again.
Thompson hardly ever gives a bad movie performance, and she’s nicely understated as she plays off the more extrovert characters with a disapprov-ing “hmm” or stately inclination of her monobrow. Both as an actress and as a writer, she knows the key to Nanny McPhee is there’s a touch of devilment about her magic. She’s nowhere near as squeaky clean as Mary Poppins, and there is always the alluring possibility that she might do something truly dan-gerous, as well as seriously wacky.
Whatever your age, but especially if you have a sneaking nostalgia for the era when children could go off and have ad-ventures without a thought of health and safety, this is a picture that should bring more than a few smiles to your face.
It’s admirably uncool and blissfully un-interested in cinematic fashion. Whatever other critics say, I am sure audiences are going to love it—not only now, but also for many years to come.
REVIEWED BY CHRIS TOOKEY
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang THE RETURN OF THE WORLD’S UGLIEST SUPERNANNY
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FILMSHORTSThe Blind Side: Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her role in this film. It’s based on a true story that is actually pretty inspiring. It’s nice to watch mov-ies outside. Yeah, that’s pretty much all I’ve got to say about this movie—except for, maybe, my actu-al opinion concerning it. Oh, and the lovely Laura Overstreet will open the show. ★★
9 min.)
The Creature Walks Among Us: After kidnapping multiple ladies in the name of love, Gill Man finally becomes human. But it’s not easy no longer being green, and Gill Man might sink if he indulges his in-stinct to swim. ★★★★★
Despicable Me: I love the idea of an animated flick that tells its story from the point of view of the vil-lain, rather than the hero. I love it even more when that villain is voiced by the deadpan and dead funny Steve Carell. Sure, this movie totally rips off Pixar, but, in my opinion, that can only be a point in its favor. ★★★★
Dinner For Schmucks: This movie, based on a much-loved French farce, stars funnyman Steve Carell
Rudd’s boss hosts a monthly dinner, and the person who brings the biggest schmuck wins a promotion. In case the comedic dream team of Rudd/Carell isn’t enough for you, the film also features a little thing called Zach Galifianakis. ★★
Eat, Pray, Love: I will admit that, after reading this mega-bestseller about one woman’s globe-trot-ting quest to find herself, I opined that the book should instead have been titled Me, Me, Me. However, if anyone can render this exercise in self-absorption both palatable and meaningful, it is Julia Roberts. ★★★
The Expendables: This movie stars Sylvester Stal-lone, Mickey Rourke, and Dolph Lundgren. I just love it when a film’s title is both name and punch line all in one. ★
Inception: With every single cinematic outing, Christopher Nolan has proven himself to be a film-maker of rare and extraordinary vision. Now with the kind of budget and clout only a massive blockbuster can buy (I’m speaking, of course, of Dark Knight), he essentially has all the rope most directors would normally use to promptly hang themselves. But not
Nolan, who rounds up Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, and a whole slew of mind-boggling special effects to craft a film that is, literally, the stuff that dreams are made of. ★★★★
Lottery Ticket: Bow Wow plays a kid from the proj-ects who just happens to be holding a lottery ticket
three-day weekend before he can claim his prize. While this sounds like the premise for some sort of dubious actioner, it’s actually the premise for an equally dubious comedy. ★★
Micmacs: He gave us Amelie and The City of Lost Children, now visionary French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is back with what may be his most visually sumptuous and emotionally realized story to date. Enter a world of circus freaks and social justice, all put together in Jeunet’s inimitable style. ★★★★★
The Mighty Uke: If you’ve been paying attention to musical trends lately, you’ve probably noticed the humble ukulele has never been more popular. This film traces its origins and resurgence, and comes complete with a performance by the Bellingham Uku-
lele Group. ★★★★
Nanny McPhee Returns: See review previous page ★★★★
The Other Guys: We all know Will Farrell is maybe the most endearingly funny guy on the big screen today. However, who knew Mark Wahlberg boasted such come-dic chops as well? There’s a lesson to be learned here,
model-turned-rapper-turned-actor. Or something along those lines. ★★★
Piranha 3D: I bet you’re probably thinking I’m going to say something like, “I’m pretty sure the Piranha fran-chise required neither another sequel nor a 3D install-ment,” but you could not be more wrong. This is what I
my 3D glasses.” ★★
Salt: Angelina Jolie does her best Jane Bond im-pression in this action-packed outing. Which pretty much definitively answers the question of who the
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The fact that Michael Cera can essentially play himself in every movie and still remain adorable is pretty much the sum total of his considerable charm. Combine that with more comic-book style than you can shake a hipster at, and you’ll have this movie. ★★★
Step Up 3D: Without the added attraction of 3D, what’s the point? This is what On-Demand is for. ★
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Toy Story 3: Pixar has amassed a string of hits un-precedented in Hollywood history—and don’t expect that streak to end here, as this film hews to what has become that studio’s trademark blend of stunning, innovative visuals and emotionally resonant story-telling. ★★★★★
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: Are you Team Edward? Or Team Jacob? Me, I’m on Team I Don’t Give a Flying Fu—what I’m trying to say is this is a movie about vampires. Or werewolves. Or maybe it’s a love story. Between vampires and werewolves. Yep, I think that’s it. ★★★
Vampires Suck: It was just a matter of time be-fore someone parodied the recent rage for all things blood-sucking. And, even if this movie totally blows, it’s probably still more entertaining than any part of the over-serious, deeply dramatic, angst-ridden Twilight Saga. Yeah, I said that. What? ★★★ (PG-13
Winter’s Bone: Ree Dolly is a girl with a whole world of problems, living in a world where problems are the norm and solutions are tough to come by. Can she track down her father and save her family’s home before her problems catch up with her? Should this movie have an alternate title of Oscar Bait? The
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they’re not in a position to say, ‘O.K., District 7 you go your own way.’
“They’d be killed by the national orga-nization; they’d come down on 106 like a ton of bricks,” Boyd said.
Without options, District 7 paramedics took their training to Seattle, through Harborview Medical Center.
“They went to Seattle claiming the program was not going to be available for them here,” Wayne complained. “That was not true. They were told their en-try into the program would be delayed a couple of months—it was delayed ex-actly 45 days. They were welcomed into the program, provided they were in the union.
“After they left the union, there would have been issues, but by that point Dis-trict 7 was already gone,” he said. “There was no reason they had to go to Seattle. There was a program for them here. I guaranteed they would be in.”
While Boyd and Wayne, like Russell, are not closely connected to the union, they admit the believed the labor dispute might have been better negotiated early on, with the county at the table. Boyd defends his men and their training.
“They didn’t train with these guys. They didn’t work together,” Boyd said. “They don’t know what the District 7 paramedics learned in training because they’re trained under an entirely dif-ferent system, and they’ve never been evaluated by our people. Just to have them come on board and work side-by-side isn’t going to work.”
Boyd said he believes the labor issues could be sorted out in a few weeks—if outside parties would stop throwing gas on the tinder and stop lighting matches. Even now, new issues related to staffing remote areas like Point Roberts cloud is-sues with smoke.
Wilson said he thinks the labor dispute is being exploited by the county admin-istration in order to reduce Bellingham’s strength at the bargaining table, and to give the county additional negotiating leverage by—essentially—breaking the back of the IAFF.
“I think the plan is to force the City of Bellingham out of the mix,” he said, “and then the county will not have any-one to hold them accountable for qual-ity of service, other than the smaller fire districts. At that point, they’re going to start pulling back the $1.3 million they contribute into the system and say, ‘Fire districts, the quality of medical care is your responsibility.’”
“You have a couple of people trying to seize control of the system,” Wayne agreed. “I guess you could call them ultra-conservative, but what are they being conservative about? Do they really think dollars are being wasted? I don’t think so. Do they think this is a territo-rial issue, a turf war between the city and county? Yeah. Are they feeding into it? Yes.
“To say the dispute is ginned up, I’m not sure that’s strong enough. More like rotgut, Wayne said.
“If the system breaks up, where’s it going to go? That’s my first question,” the program director said. “If it breaks up, the burden will be shifted from the county to the fire districts, because the county does not have the wherewithal financially and functionally. I do not know who is going to run this hypotheti-cal system. Who has the training, the background, the data, the integration of billing systems. Do you really want to re-build a multi-million dollar structure for someone’s own little private war?
“Are you going to pay for it as a tax-payer? You are. You are going to pay for a split system.”
“We’ve already started down the road to a duplicative system,” Boyd agreed. “District 7 has put in place components of their own EMS system that are outside even the labor dispute issue. They’re do-ing their own ambulance billing. They’re not contracting to do that through us. Whatcom Medic One is paying their dis-patch fees for their paramedic unit re-sponses, even though they are doing the transports and keeping the revenue. They have their own supervising physi-cian that they’re contracting with. They do their own quality assurance, their own medic training now.’
Wayne sketched the next steps.“One, we need to lock all the politi-
cians up in a room and let them burn one another until white smoke comes out the chimney. But I guess that’s not very practical,” he said. “We’re not going to get the politics out of it because it is all about politics. The complaints have nothing to with patient care.
“Since we’re not going to get the poli-ticians out of the discussion, the next thing that needs to happen is all the cooler heads need to stay cool. You’re dealing with issues to which people have dedicated their entire lives.
“It’s not the patch that you wear over your left shoulder, or over your right shoulder,” Wayne said “It is the patch that you wear over your heart that rep-resents the care that we want this com-munity to have.”
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BY AMY ALKON
THE ADVICE GODDESSBYE NOW! (PAY LATER) There’s never a good time to break up with your girlfriend, but there is a really bad time, and that’s what I chose. I did it over the phone as she was boarding a plane to attend her best friend’s wedding. I thought it would be good for her to be with friends after hear-ing the news, but it ruined her weekend. She thinks I’m a terrible self-centered idiot, and she’s right. Here’s the good part: I want her back. I’m really not sure why I did it in the first place. I guess I thought she’d be better off without me, and enjoy city life while she’s young and single.(She’s 26, I’m 31.) Now I can’t sleep, eat or think without her, but she won’t even talk to me. We used to love sitting together and reading your column on weekends. I’d give anything to be back in that chair with her, reading your answer.
—Heartbroken
Accidents do happen. If you aren’t care-ful, you might walk into a plate glass win-dow or methodically go on the Internet to gauge the exact time your girlfriend’s plane is leaving, dial her cell, wait for her to answer, and—whoops!—announce that you’re dumping her—just in time for the flight attendant to announce, “Please
turn off all electronic devices, and sit back and enjoy your flight.”
There is actually a good time to break up with somebody, and it’s when you’re sure the relationship’s over. Accordingly, there’s a good time to figure out why you’re breaking up, and that’s before you do the deed. And, why did you break up with your girlfriend? Here’s the good part: You’re still not sure! Luckily, you don’t let that stop you from spinning this as some benevolent act on your part. Yeah, sure, you only dumped her to make her happy.
Want to do a good deed? Buy a home-less guy new shoes. Want to do right by your girlfriend? Figure out why you dumped her. Commitment issues? Pre-emptive abandonment? Only if you let her know exactly what she’s dealing with can she assess whether it makes sense to give you another shot, in a way she can’t with “it was just one of those random acts of blithering idiocy.”
If you’ve had a pretty good record with her up till now (you’ve never left her at the mall or anything), you might be able to worm your way back in. You need to express deep remorse for what you did and beg her to take you back (be specific about why she’s so great and why you’re great together). Of course, getting her to even talk to you will take an act of ro-mantic restitution. Women are suckers for a having a great romantic story to tell, especially one where the guy shows that he gets what an idiot he was to ever take the woman for granted.
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BY ROB BREZSNY
FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): Why should you work harder than everyone else? Why is it up to you to pick up the slack when others are suffering from outbreaks of laziness and incompetence? And why should you be the fearless leader who is focused on fixing the glitches and smoothing over the rough patches when no one else seems to care whether things fall apart? I’ll tell you why, Aries: because it’s the Karmic Correc-tion phase of your long-term cycle—a time when you can atone for past mistakes, pay off old debts, and make up for less-than-conscientious moves you got away with once upon a time.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “What is the source of our first suffering?” wrote philosopher Gaston Bachelard. “It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumu-lated silent things within us.” Luckily for you, Tau-rus, the cosmic rhythms are aligned in such a way as to free you from at least some of that old suffering in the coming weeks. I expect that you will have more power than usual to say what you’ve never been able to say and express a part of you that has been buried too long.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than 2,000 people have climbed to the top of Mt. Everest, and 12 men have walked on the moon. But only two humans have ever ventured to the lowest spot on our planet. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Donald Walsh rode in a bathyscaphe all the way down to the Mariana Trench, which is almost seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to move in their direction, metaphorically speaking. In my astrological opinion, ascending and soaring shouldn’t be on your agenda. It’s time to dive into the mysterious depths.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I propose that we do to Mercury what astronomers did to Pluto in 2006: demote it. After all, it’s smaller than both Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Who wants to bestow the majestic title of “planet” on such a pid-dling peewee? In fact, let’s make the change now, just in time for Mercury’s retrograde phase, which began recently. That way we won’t have to get all riled up about the supposedly disruptive effects this aspect portends. How could a barren runt like Mercury stir up any kind of meaningful ruckus? I hereby declare you free and clear of the whole Mercury retrograde superstition. Please proceed on the assumption that the period between now and September 12 will be an excellent time to deepen and refine your communica-tion with anyone you care about.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A Chinese company reached out to me by email today. “Dear Sir,” the message began, “As the leading professional con-veyor belt manufacturers in Shanghai, we present to you our very best sincere regards, desiring to find out if there is a chance for us to be your top-rate conveyor belt supplier.” I wrote back, thanking them for their friendly inquiry. I said that personally I didn’t have any need of conveyor belts right now, but I told them I would check with my Leo readers to see if they might. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you see, you’re entering a time when it makes sense to expand and refine your ap-proach to work. It’ll be a good time, for example, to get more efficient and step up production. So how about it? Do you need any conveyor belts?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Our sun doesn’t really have a name. The word “sun” is a generic term that can refer to any of trillions of stars. So I’d like to pro-pose that you come up with a name for it. It could be a nickname or a title, like “Big Singer” or “Aurora Rex” or “Joy Shouter” or “Renaldo.” I hope this exercise will get you in the mood to find names for a whole
host of other under-identified things in your life, like the mysterious feelings that are swirling around inside you right now, and your longings for experiences that don’t exist yet, and your dreams about the elusive blessings you want so bad.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The odometer will turn over soon, metaphorically speaking. The big supply of the stuff you stocked up on a while back is about to run out. The lessons you began studying a year ago have been completed, at least for now, and you’re not yet ready for the next round of teachings. These are just some of the indicators that suggest you should set aside time for reflection and evaluation. The world may come pounding at your door, demanding that you make a dramatic declaration or take decisive action, but in my opinion you should stall. You need to steep in this pregnant pause.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most discussions on TV news shows involve so-called experts shouting simplistic opinions at each other. They may provide some meager entertainment value, but are rarely en-lightening. In contrast to these paltry spectacles were the salons at Paris’s Cafe Guerbois in 1869. A group of hard-working artists and writers gathered there to inspire each other. The painter Claude Monet wrote that their discussions “sharpened one’s wits, encour-aged frank and impartial inquiry, and provided en-thusiasm that kept us going for weeks... One always came away feeling more involved, more determined, and thinking more clearly and distinctly.” That’s the kind of dynamic interaction you should seek out in abundance, Scorpio.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the movies I’ve seen that depict battle scenes from hundreds of years ago, every army has numerous soldiers whose job it is to carry festive flags and pennants. If this is an accurate depiction of history, what does it mean? That powerful symbols were crucial to inspiring the troops’ heroic efforts? That touches of color and beauty lifted their morale? That they were more inclined to do their best if inspired to imagine they were participating in an epic story? Whether or not my theories apply to what actually happened back then, they apply to you now. As you go forth to fight for what you believe in, bring your equivalent of an evocative emblem.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Using a radio telescope, astronomers at Germany’s Max Planck In-stitute for Radio Astronomy have been scanning the center of the galaxy. They’re looking for evidence of amino acids that could be the building blocks of life. So far their hunt has been inconclusive. In my opin-ion, though, they’ve stumbled upon an even more ap-pealing discovery: The huge dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, they say, tastes like raspberries and smells like rum. That’s the kind of switcheroo I predict for you in the upcoming weeks, Capricorn. You may not locate the smoking gun you’re hoping to find, but in the process of searching I bet you’ll hook up with something even better.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Each one of us is a blend of life and death. In the most literal sense, our bodies always contain old cells that are dying and new cells that are emerging as replace-ments. From a more metaphorical perspective, our familiar ways of seeing and thinking and feeling are constantly atrophying, even as fresh modes emerge. Both losing and winning are woven into every day; sinking down and rising up; shrinking and expand-ing. In any given phase of our lives, one or the other polarity is usually more pronounced. But for you in the foreseeable future, Aquarius, they will be evenly balanced. Welcome to the Season of Rot and Regeneration.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Allure maga-zine sought out Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, the women who wrote the book Perfumes: The A to Z Guide. “What are the sexiest-smelling perfumes of all time?” they asked. Turin and Sanchez said Chi-natown was at the top of their list. Their explana-tion: “If wearing Opium is like walking around with a bullhorn shouting, ‘Come and get it!’, Chinatown is like discreetly whispering the same thing.” The Chinatown approach is what I recommend for you in the coming weeks, Pisces.
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Bite of Bellingham THE CHOICES ARE (ALMOST) ENDLESS
THE FIRST missive appeared on my Facebook page in mid-July: “Bite of Bellingham Sneak Peek #1: Taste a bite of Nimbus Restaurant’s pork steam buns, watermelon-basil salad and chilled tomato gazpacho.” Other dispatches soon in-formed me of the Copper Hog’s corndog lollipops and the Table’s squid ink and saf-fron pasta with seafood. There was also the welcome news that this year’s annual edible event—which features more than 20 Bellingham restaurants vying for the public’s votes—will also feature “best of the brews” and “winning wine.”
Hungry with curiosity, I reached out to event organizer Scott Pelton to find out what this year’s Bite of Bellingham has to offer. He gave me a mouthful. Cascadia Weekly: What’s cool about this year’s “Bite?” Scott Pelton: The Downtown Bellingham Partnership has really put a great event to-
gether and this year’s Bite looks to be the best yet. We’ve got a beer and wine garden with a handful of breweries and wineries for your imbibing pleasure. Everything from Mt. Baker Vineyards, to Anacortes Brewery, Boundary, and Chuckanut breweries.
While you’re sipping on these fine drinks you will be enjoying—and hopefully dancing—to music from Pete Farmer, Robert Sarazin Blake, Polecat, and Vaughn Kreestoe. Eat from over 24 different Bellingham restaurants. Drink in the garden.
Dance. Then vote for your favorites. All of this, in the middle of Cornwall Avenue! You usually get in trouble for drinking in the street.
CW: I’ve noticed all the tantalizing “Bite of Bellingham” sneak peeks on Face-book. Are you responsible for that?
SP: I have to give a hat tip to my fantas-tic crew of interns for those. Mandi and Hanna know how to get the word out.
CW: The addition of wine and beer is new this year, is it not? What was the reasoning behind that, and does it open to the door to more categories?
SP: The beer and wine garden is definitely new this year. We are in the heart of some of the best wineries and brew-eries in the world. If we are trying to give people a full culinary and cultural experi-ence of Bellingham, you have to include the beer and wine.
You will have the oppor-tunity to vote for not only your favorite beer and wine, but for their favorite brew-ery and winery. Lobbying friends is encouraged. You can’t fully experience a good “Bite” without a good “sip,” so we felt, hey, why not? Plus, I just like beer.
CW: Do you encourage restaurants to offer “bites” that are part of the regular menus, or do they come up with special?
SP: What we suggest restaurants do is put their best foot forward. This is a competition and we want to make sure they represent themselves the best. You are going to taste some of your old favorites, but also some tastes that are more, shall we say, experimental. It is really going to be interesting and just a whole lot of fun. We have winners
from years past who will be attempting to protect their status as Bellingham’s Best Bite, or trying to regain it.
CW: Why is an event like this important for restaurants (and the public)?
SP: It is important because it gives them an opportunity to really be a part of what it means to be community. They get to show ’hamsters just how good we have it here and share it with those passing through our city that day. “Bites” are
done all over the country and it is always a rich cultural experi-ence. Food is often the center-piece of many communities and the Bite of Bellingham exempli-fies that for Bellingham.CW: What are you excited for re-garding the event?SP: Personally, I am excited to listen to the music and watch it all just come together. It has been a lot of planning with a lot of great people and orga-nizers. I love throwing a good party and this was an opportu-nity to be a part of one. It will be my goal to try a bite from every single vendor. We’ll see how that goes.CW: What do winners get?SP: Winners get a certificate for the category that they won. You can see these cer-
tificates at your favorite local restau-rants. Lastly, they will have the pride of bragging rights.
CW: Any food item you’re particularly looking forward to?
SP: I’m a huge fan of pulled pork and I know there are some great entries this year. Also, anything by the guys at Nimbus is pretty amazing.
CW: What if it rains?SP: What?! It rains in Bellingham?
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WHAT: Bite of BellinghamWHEN: 12-4pm Sat., Aug. 21WHERE: 1300 block of Cornwall Ave. COST: Entry is free. Tickets are $1 each (bite prices range from 1-3 tickets, entrees from 4-7 and 1-3 for wine and beer)INFO: www.down townbellingham.com
“YOU ARE GOING TO TASTE SOME OF YOUR OLD FAVORITES, BUT ALSO SOME TASTES THAT ARE MORE, SHALL WE SAY, EXPERIMENTAL.” —SCOTT PELTON, BITE OF BELLINGHAM ORGANIZER
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